New Delhi: Shoaib Akhtar has insisted that he has been telling Sarfaraz Ahmed to pull up his socks for the last two years and therefore no one else is responsible for the sacking of the wicket-keeper batsman as Pakistan skipper in Tests and T20Is. “I saw it coming for Sarfaraz. Nobody else is to be blamed but him. Been telling him for two years to pull up his socks,” Shoaib Akhtar tweeted on Friday.
Besides being stripped off captaincy, Sarfaraz has also been dropped for the upcoming tour of Australia, where Pakistan will play three T20Is and two Tests. His axing was on the cards after the team’s home series defeat to a depleted Sri Lanka in T20Is.
Speaking on his YouTube channel, Akhtar said: “The situation which has occurred is due to his own fault. It was not someone else’s fault.”
“I also want to tell you that they will not even keep him on the team. I can guarantee that right now. They will not give him a chance in the team,” he added.
The Rawalpindi Express further termed Ahmed a ‘timid’ captain. IANS
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